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Nathan Thornburgh is the co-founder of Roads & Kingdoms.

"You have to remain committed to the kind of irrational act of producing journalism for an uncaring world. You have to want to do that so bad, that you will never not be doing that. There’s so many ways to die in this business."

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Thornburgh on Longform

[01:45] Roads & Kingdoms

[02:50] Pico Iyer

[01:45] Coin Talk

[05:35] "SATW Foundation Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition Awards for Works Published in 2014 - 2015"

[07:40] "The Prawn War" (Michael Snyder • Roads & Kingdoms • Sep 2016)

[17:40] "The Mysterious Demise of Lucky Peach Magazine and Its Uncertain Future" (Tim Carman • Washington Post • March 2017)

[20:15] "The Sound of Change: Can Music Save Cuba?" (Time • Nov 2008)

[27:10] “Myanmar Unsanctioned" (Roads & Kingdoms • March 2012)

[27:20] “Three Keys to Eating Well in Burma" (Matt Goulding • Roads & Kingdoms • May 2012)

[28:10] "PRO MOVES by Breville and Roads and Kingdom" (breville • Feb 2015)

[32:20] "Getting Kabul’s Milk to Market" (May Jeong • Roads & Kingdoms • Oct 4 2013)

[39:20] Grape, Olive, Pig, Travels: Deep Travels Through Spain's Food Culture (Matt Goulding • Harper Wave/Anthony Bourdain • 2016)

[41:00] "The R&K Guide to Accra"

[41:15] "The R&K Guide to Tokyo"

[41:30] "The R&K Guide to New Orleans"

[48:10] The Trip

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Kiera Feldman is an investigative reporter. Her latest article is "Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection."

"I used to have a lot of anxiety that I don’t seem like an investigative reporter. Utlimately, my reporting personality is just me. It’s just, I want to be real with people. And the number one rule of reporting is to be a human being to other people. Be decent. Be kind."

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Feldman on Longform

[00:45] "Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection" (Pro Publica • Jan 2018)

[2:00] "With Child: The Right to Choose in Rapid City" (Harper's • Dec 2016)

[2:00] "This Is My Beloved Son" (This Land Press • Oct 2014)

[2:10] Longform Best of 2017

[03:00] The Investigative Fund

 

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Azmat Khan is an investigative reporter and a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine.

"For me, what matters most is systematic investigation, and I think that’s different than an investigative story that might explore one case. It’s about stepping back and understanding the big picture and getting to the heart of something. It doesn’t have to be a number’s game, but being able to say: Look, I looked at a wide enough sample of whatever this issue is, and here is what this tells us. That is what I crave and love the most."

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Khan on Longform

[00:05] Coin Talk

[01:55] Longform Podcast #125: Anand Gopal

[01:55] "The Uncounted" (Azmat Khan, Anand Gopal • New York Times Magazine • Nov 2017)

[02:35] "Targeting ISIS, and Killing Civilians" (Michael Barbaro • The Daily • Nov 2017)

[02:35] "Counting Civilian Casualties in Iraq" (Michael Barbaro • The Daily • Nov 2017)

[02:35] "The Unpaid Price of Civilian Casualties" (Michael Barbaro • The Daily • Nov 2017)

[03:05] Longform Podcast #265: Michael Barbaro

[26:25] "Ghost Students, Ghost Teachers, Ghost Schools" (BuzzFeed • July 2015)

[31:35] "An Accounting for the Uncounted" (Robert Malley, Stephen Pomper • The Atlantic • Dec 2017)

[34:10] "When War Comes Close to Home" (Zareena Grewal • NYTimes • Oct 2015)

[52:40] "The Bombing of Al-Bara" (Frontline • Nov 2015)

[53:15] No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes (Anand Gopal • Metropolitan Books • 2014)

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Ben Taub is a staff writer at The New Yorker.

“I don’t think it’s my place to be cynical because I’ve observed some of the horrors of the Syrian War through these various materials, but it’s Syrians that are living them. It’s Syrians that are being largely ignored by the international community and by a lot of political attention on ISIS. And I think that it wouldn’t be my place to be cynical when some of them still aren’t.”

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Taub on Longform

[01:45] David Remnick on the Longform Podcast

[07:45] "Was U.S. Journalist Steven Sotloff a Marked Man?" (Daily Beast • Sep 2014)

[27:00] Taub on The Voice (YouTube)

[32:00] "Journey to Jihad" (New Yorker • Jun 2015)

[48:00] Rukmini Callimachi on the Longform Podcast (Part 1)

[48:00] Rukmini Callimachi on the Longform Podcast (Part 2)

[49:30] "The Shadow Doctors" (New Yorker • Jun 2016)

[49:30] "The Assad Files," funded in part by a grant from the Pulitzer Foundation (New Yorker • Apr 2016)

[51:00] "’They were torturing to kill’: inside Syria’s death machine" (Guardian • Oct 2015)

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Maggie Haberman covers the White House for The New York Times.

“If I start thinking about it, then I’m not going to be able to just keep doing my job. I'm being as honest as I can — I try not to think about it. If you’re flying a plane and you think about the fact that if the plane blows up in midair you’re gonna die, do you feel like you can really focus as well? So, I’m not thinking about [the stakes]. This is just my job. This is what we do. Ask me another question.”

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Haberman on Longform

[01:45] "Manafort Talks With Senate Investigators About Meeting With Russians" (with Eileen Sullivan and Adam Goldman • New York Times • Jul 2017)

[02:15] Haberman’s New York Times archive

[02:30] Haberman’s New York Post archive

[02:30] Haberman’s New York Daily News archive

[03:15] readthissummer.com

[03:15] "Paladino assails Cuomo’s parenting" (Politico • Oct 2010)

[08:30] Harold and the Purple Crayon (Crockett Johnson • Harper Collins • 2015)

[12:15] "Inside Donald Trump’s Last Stand: An Anxious Nominee Seeks Assurance" (with Ashley Parker, Jeremy W. Peters, and Michael Barbaro • New York Times • Nov 2016)

[19:15] Private Parts

[21:30] "Excerpts From the Times’s Interview With Trump" (with Peter Baker and Michael S. Schmidt • New York Times • Jul 2017)

[32:45] "Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles" (with Glenn Thrush • New York Times • Feb 2017)

[35:15] Steve Dunleavy’s New York Post archive

[44:15] Broadcast News

 

 

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Tina Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, is the founder of Women in the World. Her latest book is The Vanity Fair Diaries.

“I believed that my bravado had no limit, if you know what I mean. I see limits now, let’s put it that way. I do see limits. But you know, I’m still pretty reckless when I want something. That’s why I don’t tweet much. I’ll say something that will just cause me too much trouble.”

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@TinaBrownLM

[00:00] Longform Best of 2017

[03:00] Vanity Fair Diaries (Henry Holt and Co. • 2014)

[05:35] Tatler

[12:00] "Darkness Visible" (William Styron • Vanity Fair • Dec 1989)

[14:40] "Guarding Sing Sing" (Ted Conover • New Yorker • April 2000)

[14:40] Longform Podcast #38 Ted Conover

[16:00] "Dominick Dunne on His Daughter’s Murder" (Dominick Dunne • Vanity Fair • March 1984)

[28:10] "10 Years Ago, an Omen No One Saw" (David Carr • New York Times • Aug 2009)

[31:50] The Diana Chronicles (Anchor • 2007)

[38:40] "Bruna Papandrea Options Tina Brown’s ‘Vanity Fair Diaries’ For Limited TV Series" (Nellie Andreeva • Deadline • Sept 2017)

[41:43] Women in the World

 

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Mara Shalhoup was until recently editor-in-chief of LA Weekly. She is the author of BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family.

“I’m so fearful about what it will look like for cities without an outlet for [alt-weekly] stories. And for young writers, who need and deserve the hands-on editing these kind of editors can give them and help really launch careers … it’s a tragedy for journalism. It’s a tragedy for young people, people of color. It’s a tragedy for the subjects of stories that won’t get written now. That’s just the reality.”

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@mshalhoup

Shalhoup on Longform

[01:15] Creative Loafing

[01:20] Chicago Reader

[01:35] "Rich People Demolished L.A. Weekly To Build The Future They Want For Journalism" (Patrick Redford • Deadspin • Dec 2017)

[06:55] "Brian Calle Wants to Turn LA Weekly into 'The Cultural Center' of the City " (Lauren Raab • LA Times • Nov 2017)

[11:00] "LA Weekly Reveals Its Secret Owners: Mostly Men with Orange County Ties" (David Pierson, Lauren Raab • LA Times • Dec 2017)

[12:25] @LAWeekly

[13:10] "Armstrong Williams Wants to Buy Washington City Paper: Report" (Brett Samuels • The Hill • Dec 2017)

[30:45] "A Touch of Gastronomic Magic Spices Up Voltaggio's ink.well" (Javier Cabral • LA Weekly • Dec 2017)

[30:55] "James and Dave Franco Make a Great Film About the Worst Movie Ever: The Room" (April Wolfe • LA Weekly • Dec 2017)

[36:15] "Hip-hop's Shadowy Empire" (Creative Loafing • Dec 2006)

[36:15] BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family (St. Martin's Griffin • Jan 2011)

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Zoe Chace is a reporter and producer at This American Life.

“Radio is a movie in your head. It’s a very visual thing. It’s a transporting thing—when it’s done well. And it’s louder than your thoughts. It is both of those things. It would just take me out of the place that I was, where I was lost and couldn’t figure things out. ... They had a very personal way of telling the story to you, so that you kind of felt like you’re there with them. Like it’s less lonely, it’s literally less lonely to have them there. And that felt really good.”

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@zchace

[02:30] Chace's Archive at This American Life

[02:30] Chace's Archive at Planet Money

[04:00] Longform Podcast #239: Brian Reed

[05:50] S-Town

[16:10] Weekend Edition Saturday

[25:45] "Donald Trump: Ban all Muslim travel to U.S." (Jeremy Diamond • CNN • Dec 2015)

[28:55] "I Thought I Knew You" (This American Life • Jan 2016)

[33:35] "Sex, Boyhood and Politics in South Carolina" (This American Life • Feb 2016)

[41:35] "The Believer" (Julia Ioffe • Politico • June 2016)

[43:00] "Will I Know Anyone at This Party" (This American Life • Oct 2016)

[43:30] "Party in the USA" (This American Life • Oct 2016)

[50:25] "Flake News" (This American Life • Oct 2017)

[55:10] "Fighting Donald Trump Cost Jeff Flake His Job. But He's Not Going Quietly" (Nash Jenkins • Time • Nov 2017)

[55:20] Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle (Jeff Flake • Random House • 2017)

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Jason Leopold is a senior investigative reporter for Buzzfeed and the author of News Junkie.

“I made the worst mistake that cost me my credibility and I could have done two things. I could have walked away, and said I’m done with this, no one wants me anymore. Or I could have—which I did—say, I’m going to learn how to do this differently, and be better. And that’s ultimately is what paved the way to this FOIA work. Because no one trusted me anymore.”

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Leopold on Longform

[01:50] "Promethea Unbound" (Mike Mariani • Ativist • Nov 2017)

[02:10] FOIA.gov

[03:45] Leopold’s Buzzfeed Archive

[05:15] "Military-Industrial Complex Speech" (Dwight D. Eisenhower • Public Papers of the Presidents • 1961)

[07:50] "How I Got Clinton’s Emails" (Vice • Nov 2016)

[12:40] "Did Sebastian Gorka Bolt From the White House—Or Was He Pushed?" (Asawin Suebsaeng, Spencer Ackerman • The Daily Beast • Aug 2017)

[13:50] "Sebastian Gorka Gave A Classified 'Tirade' About Radical Islam?" (Buzzfeed • Sept 2017)

[16:30] "How the US Military's Fight Against the Islamic State Became 'Operation Inherent Resolve’" (Vice News • Jan 2016)

[22:10] "A Bunch Of CIA Contractors Got Fired For Stealing Snacks From Vending Machines" (Jason Leopold, David Mack • Buzzfeed • June 2017)

[26:10] News Junkie (Rare Bird Books • June 2014)

[27:35] "Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury, Lying to Reporters" (Truthout • May 2006)

[41:00] "Air Force Pulls ‘Jesus Loves Nukes’ Ethics Training After Publication of Truthout Report" (Truthout • July 2011)

[50:00] Citizen Four (Praxis Films • 2014)

[53:10] "The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks" (Julia Ioffe • The Atlantic • Nov 2017)

[53:40] "Secret Finding: 60 Russian Payments ‘To Finance Election Campaign Of 2016’ (Jason Leopold, Anthony Cormier, Jessica Garrison • Buzzfeed • Nov 2017)

[59:15] Investigative Reporters and Editors

[59:25] National Security Archive

[59:35] "Effective FOIA Requesting for Everyone” (National Security Archive • 2008)

[60:50] FOIA Online

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Kara Swisher is the executive editor and co-founder of Recode.

“I do the work. I just work harder than other people. I really do. I work harder, I interview more people, I call more people, I text more people. And so I find out, and they can not talk to me — fine. I know anyway. I’d like to talk to you, I’d like to give you a chance. I’d like to be fair. I’d like to hear your side of the story. And the most important thing is, I think smart people – and these are very smart people — like smart questions. They don’t like the fawning questions. They don’t like being licked up and down all day. Some of the day they like it. They want someone who knew them before they were billionaires. Because when you’re a billionaire, every day you’re so smart. Everyone wants something from you.”

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@karaswisher

[02:35] Longform Podcast #239: Brian Reed

[02:50] Recode

[02:55] Recode Decode

[03:00] Code Conference

[04:40] "Kara Swisher’s First Tech Article Was About Pay Phones in 1980" (Jesse Rifkin • A Step in the Write Direction • Nov 2017)

[08:10] "McLaughlin Suit Settled" (Jim Naughton, Phil McCombs • Washington Post • Dec 1999)

[10:00] "Pundit Power" (Eric Alterman • Washington Post • March 1989)

[11:30] Longform Podcast #128: Jack Shafer

[22:51] AOL.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads, and Made Millions in the War for the Web (Crown Business • 1998)

[35:25] Swisher’s Archive at Vanity Fair

[41:20] "Uber CEO Kalanick Advised Employees on Sex Rules for a Company Celebration in 2013 ‘Miami Letter’" (Kara Swisher, Johana Bhuiyan • Recode • June 2017)

[41:40] "A Top Uber Executive, Who Obtained the Medical Records of a Customer Who Was a Rape Victim, Has Been Fired’" (Kara Swisher, Johana Bhuiyan • Recode • June 2017)

[41:40] "The Men and (No) Women Facebook of Facebook Management" (Wall Street Journal • Aug 2007)

[41:50] "The Men and No Women of Web 2.0 Boards" (Wall Street Journal • Dec 2010)

[43:40] "Will Twitter Add a Woman Director Before the IPO?" (Wall Street Journal • Sept 2013)

[48:40] " Missing Milly Dowler's Voicemail Was Hacked by News of the World" (Nick Davies, Amelia Hill • The Guardian • July 2011)

[58:35] There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere (Crown Business • 2003)

[61:35] Pop-Up Magazine

[61:40] California Sunday

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